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IACrea, from an idea to the launch

IACrea, from an idea to the launch

Two months ago, I started a new journey by building IACrea, the AI for home staging. Let me take you back to the beginning of this story... Early 2023, I sold my AI SaaS for profile pictures and I launched TwittExplorer but due to a shocking announcement revealing the exorbitant

Meet Sophie : from 3 co-founders to 20+ talents

Meet Sophie : from 3 co-founders to 20+ talents

Today I'm pleased to introduce you to Sophie, my friend who built and grew On train, a training company. Hi Sophie! Welcome to AboutStartup! Can you introduce yourself? Sure, my name is Sophie, I'm 34 years old, and I'm a partner at On train. We are a team of three

Daniel: co-founder of Tolt, affiliation for founders

Daniel: co-founder of Tolt, affiliation for founders

Daniel is the co-founder of a service I love: Tolt (an affiliate service to reward users). And I met him in a funny way: through his support service. I wanted to try Tolt but I had questions about it. He was super reactive and answered back quickly (the super power

Personal brand, why does it matter?

I started to be active on Twitter in summer 2022 after a phone call with Tibo who gave me one of the most valuable advice I had in 2022. I called him to propose to him to build a project together. I knew him at engineering school. Since, I always

Guillaume: from 34 to 10K followers in a week

Guillaume: from 34 to 10K followers in a week

Today I'm pleased to talk to Guillaume I met on Twitter. It is the person whom I bookmark the most on Twitter (french content, but worth to read with a translator), then I hope you will appreciate the content. Hello Guillaume! Thank you for your participation to AboutStartup! Can you

Meet Jean, co-founder of Mailmeteor with 5 millions users

Meet Jean, co-founder of Mailmeteor with 5 millions users

A few months ago I discovered https://www.indiehackers.com/ . I wasn’t active on it but I noticed a message about a meetup in Paris, where I live. I didn’t know many entrepreneurs before and I think it’s great to be part of a group of similar

Unrealme: from 0 to acquisition in 3 months

Unrealme: from 0 to acquisition in 3 months

Context After I launched Cryptopy , I started marketing for customer acquisition. I talked about it in discord server, reddit post, Facebook... But it was inefficient: people didn't know me, I was banned regularly. Then I tried talking with traders who have a crypto audience to offer a partnership. 95% never

Tarek, from 0 to 6k$ MRR in 2 years.

Tarek, from 0 to 6k$ MRR in 2 years.

Tarek is a successful indie hacker in addition to be a full time worker. His journey is very interesting, and I’m pleased to receive him to share it with you today. Hi Tarek! Thank you for your participation to AboutStartup! Can you introduce yourself? Hey Pauline, thanks for having

KloutUp : Meet Mansour

KloutUp : Meet Mansour

Hi I'm Mansour, Frontend Developer for 2 years, I'm French and live in Stockholm for 1 year with my wife and kids. I'm passionate about tech, travel and especially sports. I like to do personal projects on my free time, I'll tell you about my latest one: "KloutUp". My background

From 0 to 51k$ in 3 months: Meet Dagobert

From 0 to 51k$ in 3 months: Meet Dagobert

If you want to discover someone interesting and fun on Twitter, you can check @dagorenouf 's profile: he tweets memes about founders, and shares his startup's journey. Hi Dagobert! Thank you for your participation to AboutStartup! You built logology a few years ago, can you tell us the story behind?

TwittExplorer: Journey from the idea to the launch

TwittExplorer: Journey from the idea to the launch

A bit of context I created a Twitter account in 2015, to try I guess, but I never used it. I started to use it for real in Summer 2022 when I understood it helps to get opportunities. That was my very first Tweet: Great tips that help the twitter

SaaS templates: Meet Jonathan

SaaS templates: Meet Jonathan

Today I'm pleased to introduce you Jonathan , the creator of Supastarter: NextJS templates to build fast SaaS, with supabase integration. Hi Jonathan! I’m happy you accepted the interview! Can you introduce yourself? Hello, I am Jonathan, a full stack developer from Germany and the creator of supastarter. I tweet

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SEO, but how?

“Export Twitter bookmarks”, "Crypto trading alerts”, “Twitter analytics”, "Get my followers info", "Generate AI images of myself" ... These are a few keywords I dream to be well referenced in Search Engine for TwittExplorer, Cryptopy or Unrealme Indeed, when you start a business, everybody tells you SEO is very important. It’

From 0 to 38K$ in 6 months using nocode: Meet Dan & Sveta.

From 0 to 38K$ in 6 months using nocode: Meet Dan & Sveta.

Dan & Sveta are an emblematic indie entrepreneur’s duo on Twitter. I have known them since Summer 2022 and they are one of the first founders accounts who build in public I discovered. They create tools for creators, indie hackers, business makers... I’m really pleased to interview them as

From +528% ROI with crypto trading to Cryptopy SaaS

From +528% ROI with crypto trading to Cryptopy SaaS

I developed a +528% ROI crypto trading strategy with friends in 2021. We outperformed the market (e.g: investment in BTC that year couldn't have made more than +100% if they bought at the lowest price and sold at the highest price). Then we decided to create Cryptopy, an SaaS

Meet Thomas: Indie maker on the road to ramen profitability

Meet Thomas: Indie maker on the road to ramen profitability

Thomas Sanlis is a serial indie maker I met on Twitter who started to monetize products in 2020. Let's learn from his story. Hi Thomas! Can you introduce yourself? Hi Pauline, of course! Excited to be published on your blog 😄 My name is Thomas, but you can call me Toto!

How to start a business without funding?

How to start a business without funding?

In this article I will give some clues to start monetizing products. Idea Yes, you need an idea to start. The first step in creating a company is to come up with a business idea. This can be something you are passionate about or a problem you want to solve.

About Startup: introduction

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About Startup: introduction

Hello! My name is Pauline and I'm the main author of this site. Beside my full time work as a managing consultant for a big firm, I am an indie hacker (i.e: I create companies without funding) since 2022. I bootstrapped two products with 2 friends: Cryptopy.fr (i.